The Sunday Oregonian., August 01, 1920, SECTION THREE, Page 6, Image 48

THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, AUGUST 1, 1920
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on an advance from which there will
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big New York corporation, nor can from the beverage quality el water,
they open fire cn railroad presidents I Though we do not look forward
without danger to that good Texas cheerfully to a p-ospect of taking
democrat, R. S. Lovett. When the formalin with our water, there are
democratic committee publishes its communities in the United " States
BETURN TO PARTY GOVERNMENT.
"I believe in party sponsorship in
government," Senator Harding said
In the opening of his speech of ac
ceptance. "I believe in party govern
ment as distinguished from personal
government, individual, dictatorial,
autocratic or what not. In a citizen
ship of more than a hundred millions
It is Impossible to reach agreement
upon all questions. Parties are
formed by those who reach a consen
sus of opinion. It was the intent of
the founding fathers to give to this
republic a dependable and enduring
popular government, representative
In form, and it was designed to make
political parties not only the preserv
ing sponsors, but also the effective
agencies through which hopes and
aspirations and convictions and con
science may be translated into pub
lic performance.
"Our first committal Is the resto
ration of representative popular gov
ernment under the constitution
through the agency of the republican
party.
How far we have traveled and how
much we have learned in eight
years'. In 1912 men who proclaimed
their faith in the party system
were denounced as reactionaries and
standpatters and the leaders of the
republicans were branded as bosses
Those who did their worst to split
and wreck the republican party pro
claimed that through them alone was
progress possible. -Though demo
crats kept their own ranks unbroken.
they applauded this sentiment as ap
plied to their opponent.
While the democratic leader who
succeeded by this application of the
old maxim "Divide and conquer
called upon all forward-looking men
to support -him, he" did not accept the
aid of republicans as patriotic co
operation between the two parties for
the good of the country; he took it
as a party asset of the democrats. So
far was he from regarding a meet
ing of minds among leaders of his
own party as the proper means to
make supremacy of his own party
effective in conducting the govern
ment that he habitually ostracised
and dismissed men who ventured to
express independent opinions, and he
Imposed his will on congress. He
regards submission to him as a test
of party loyalty and converts his
party into a personal political asset.
He promoted disorganization of th
opposing party, while he imposed th
maximum of discipline on his own
for the purpose of making it an in
strument to carry out his personal
will instead of an organization to
promote certain principles. It thus
ceases to meet the uses of represen
tatlve popular government and starts
the republic on the road to personal
government.
This experience of the American
people teaches that the safety of
their institutions rests in the compe
tition of two great parties, represent
ing opposing principles. They can
successfully operate only by the will
of the majority, expressed by their
representatives and executed by
their chosen leaders, and by the
ready acceptance of that will by the
minority. The defeated party in an
election performs a valuable public
service by acting as the vigilant critic
of the winner's conduct of the gov
ernment, with the hope of victory
in a future election as the incentive
There is always danger that zeal for
success may lead a party to subordi
nate triumph of its principles to the
selfish interest of the party. The
corrective is at hand in desertion of
many members to the opposite party
and In the action of Independent
voters, of whom there are always
many.
A party which fans under the ab
solute dictation of one man Is false
to the purpose of its existence, for it
accepts as its guide his personal
opinion on the problems of the day
in place of the basic principles which
brought it into existence. It at
tempts the impossible, for, as Mr.
Harding said, "No man Is big enough
to run this great republic," and
Invites division and consequent de
feat, for men of independent char
acter will surely appear among its
members who will rebel against one
man's dictation when that man
opinion disagrees with their own
The assumption, once boldly main
tained, that disorganization of par
ties promotes progress is as false as
the pretense that progress is made
through unswerving obedience to one
man's will. In a democracy progress
must be expressed in law and law
must be the expression of the popu
lar will, or It is not obeyed. The
composite will of the people can be 1
ascertained only from the voices of
a number of representatives, directly
elected and organized in a great
party. It cannot be properly ex
pressed or put In effect by a number
of small factions, nor Is one man
capable of reading it truly unless he
hears with open mind and defers to
the views of others. This can be
done through parties organized un
der leaders, not under dictators, and
by their action progress is made.
The people have suffered and are
still suffering such evils through de
part u res from the sound principles
of . party government that they are
ready to return. Senator Harding's
declaration of faith in that system,
NOT THE SAME.
Our excellent democratic contem
porary, the Sclo Tribune, sternly re
bukes The Oregonlan "because of its
persistent efforts to make' Cox a wet
candidate" and "because it also tries
to attach a stigma by .reason of the
Tammany support, as if these two
factions were to dominate the ad--ministration
should Mr. Cox be
elected."
Do we understand our friend to
say that it makes no difference who
and what nominate any man for. the
presidency? Does it say that no
conclusions of any kind are to be
drawn because Tammany has a can
didate and that it is joined by Boss
Nugent. Boss Brennan, Boss Taggart
and the other bosses and their or
ganizations to procure his nomina
tion ? Does it mean nothing to any
one that the several political machines
which unite to make a president are
also wet? When they succeed in
their plans after a long struggle, who
has won the victory? Tammany or
the enemies of Tammany? Nugent,
Brennan, Taggart et al. or their ene
mies? If there are to be no inferences or
implications of any kind as to a can
didate, because of his associations,
because he owes his nomination to
certain men, certain influences and
certain principles for which he
is supposed to stand, how shall such
a nominee be judged? If It shall be
by what he says, what he promises,
what he hopes, let the rule be ap
plied to all parties.
It will be interesting to hear
whether the judgment the Tribune
renders as to the democratic candi
date in 1920 is inspired by the same
considerations as caused it and
others with it to render another kind
of judgment as to the republican
candidates of 1912 and 1916, and
even 1920.
list, it will be found to be plentifully
sprinkled with millionaires.
Publicity is the one safeguard
gainst exercise of undue political
influence through, campaign sub
scriptions. It will inform the people
who gives to each party, and how
much. If some man gives an un
usually large sum, it will awaken vig
ilance which should destroy his !
chance of gaining anything that he
should not have. If all those con
cerned in some special interest that
is known to desire action contrary
to the general interest should appear
as liberal subscribers to one party.
publicity will put the people on
guard against them and may cause
their money to do more harm than
good to the candidate for whom it
is subscril ed.
Not .only for these reasons but on
general principles there is no good
reason why campaign donations
should not be published. Men and
women desire success of the party
in whose principles they believe;
why should they not give money to
its campaign chest openly and proud
ly without hope of political reward?
Lists of subscriptions to liberty loans,
hospital funds and other purposes
are published from day to day in the
belief that example makes giving
contagious. Why not for political
funds for party success?
ITXtNO A HIGHWAY ROUTE.
The Oregonlan discovers in the
Dallas Itemizer a complaint that
highway map printed in this paper
last Wednesday is a "'deliberate mis
representation," and that its purpose
was to "Dreiudice the neonle of the
state at large in favor of the highway
commission, making it appear that
the demands of Dallas and Indepen
dence are unreasonable." The Ore
gonian is fairly familiar with the
geography of Polk county and a re
examination of the map fails to dis
close any serious inaccuracy. It has
not been suggested here that the de
mands of Dallas and Independence
are unreasonable; but It is evidently
feared by the Itemizer that the pub
lic may think so. We think It likely.
The highway commission had
sought to make the Pacific highway
(West Side) an air-line thoroughfare
from McMinnville to Corvallis, avoid
ing a detour to Dallas or Indepen
dence, and serving both these live
towns by spurs. The legislature of
1917, however, had located the high
way by Its enactment from McMinn
ville to Dallas, Independence and
Corvallis. The court has upheld the
power of the legislature to fix the
route and denied the right of the
commission to change it.
The principle on which the high
way commission sought relocation
was that a trunk road serving two
points should be placed along the
shortest practicable route. It is ob
vious that the legislature believed
that the most serviceable highway or
system of highways on the West Side
should connect all the principal
points. The Oregonian thinks that
both policies are sound, and that they
may be made compatible.
Now that the Pacific highway Is
to go by way of Dallas and Indepen
dence, as the legislature intended, it
is to be assumed that Polk county
will place no obstacle in the way of
construction of a road but will
help along the direct route located
by the highway commission.
stagnant pools will be enhanced by
the French discovery, in which event 1
another step has been made toward
our realization of a" mosquitoless
world.
PUBLICITY FOB CAMPAIGN FUNDS.
It is well that both political parties
should guard themselves against un-
iue obligation to any men or set of
men which might arise from exces
sively large individual contributions
to their campaign funds. At the same
time the public demands that the
contest be waged in such a way that
large sums of money must be spent.
The people expect the candidates
and many others on their behalf to
travel all over the country and to
speak on the questions at issue.
They expect pamphlets and all man
ner of printed matter to be liberally
circulated. They expect men to be
busy getting out the vote. Manage
ment of all these activities requires
heavy expenditure without payment
of a dollar corruptly or wastefully.
lalk of large contributions by in
terests which are suspected of a de
sire to influence the policy of the In
coming administration, of slush
funds and of frying the fat out .of
beneficiaries .of certain laws has
made campaign managers extremelv
careful about whom they accept
money rrom ana how much they ac
cept from any one person. Espe
cially since the recent primary cam
paign they realiz- that a candidate
may actually be defeated by heavy
expenditure to elect him. Hence
the decision of the republican com
mittee to limit contributions to S1000
ana mat or tne democratic commit
tee that, while it will place no limit
on the size of subscriptions, it will
scrutinize the i source of large ones
Detore accepting them.
The limit on republican contribu
tions Is nothing but "bunk" prompted
by the favorite charge of democrats
that the republican party is the party
or tne ricn, which is also "bunk."
There is no valid reason why a re
publican who is able- and willing to
give more than $1000 to his party
snouia not ao so, providing he ex
pects no xavors. -mere are many
men to whom $25,000 is no more
than $1000 is to another man. and
the J1000 man is as likoiy to claim
some return for his money as is the
$25,000 man. The motive -of the
giver, not the amount that he gives,
snouia aeciae wnetner nis money
should be accepted. When a large
sum is offered by a man who is
known to be interested in having the
president or congress take certain
action, there is good cause to doubt
his motive
Republicans need not hesitate to
accept large sums, for not all the
rich men are in their party by any
means, t here :.re Charles R. Crane,
who gave lavishly for President
Wilson's election in 1912 and who
has been rewarded with the min
istry to China; W. C. Redfield,
Edward N. Hurle. , Henry Ford, and
many others. When democrats
turn their guns on Wall street, they
shoot at Bernard M. Baruch and
AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS.
The state of Washington has been
building roads on the pay-as-you-go
plan for fifteen years, we are re
minded by the Chehalis Bee-Nugget.
And that observant newspaper re
marks that after these fifteen years
of effort the state has no completed
trunk highway.
In recent years the highway fund
raised bytaxation has been about
$1,000,000 a year. It has been ap
portioned biennially by the legisla
ture for grading and graveling. In
addition in 1919 the legislature ap
propriated $1,000,000 for annual
maintenance and apportioned more
than $2,000,000 among thirty-nine
counties for construction of state
highways in forty places. The latter
funds were accumulated from auto
mobile licenses.
The result is that paved roads ex
ist in patches in thickly settled com-
munit'es, while the graveled roads
once built wear out before the sec
tions can be connected. The work
has been otherwise found expensive
because of the greater comparative
cost of completing small contracts.
The observation of the Portland
motorist as to the condition of Wash
ington highways runs principally to
the Pacific highway north of Clarke
county. Through that county it is
paved. There was a time, we recall.
when it was the narrow vision of the
Washington legislature that improve
ment of this road would be of so
much benefit to Portland that the
residents of the Columbia river
counties ought to do without it. But
thereafter it became apparent that
W ashingrton was being deprived o
tourist travel because of the wretched
condition of this highway. For how
many years we do not recall, but they
have been several in number, work
has been under way on the highway
between the Clarke county line and
Chehalis. It has been going on in
spots. Memorably mean detours and
rough and muddy main routes hav
been and still are the burden of the
autoist who undertakes to travel the
road.
Oregon, which began lone after
Washington on a system of state
constructed highways, has surmoun
ed far more serious difficulties on
its section of the Pacific highway and
now nas a cross-state highway from
north to south that is. almost uni
formly good.
Here is a practical illustration of
the difference between the systems
of highway construction adopted by
the two states. Oregon began Its
larger construction work by laying
out certain trunk highways. It cap
italized its automobile licenses and
obtained funds for pushing con
struction in a large way. It clothed
its highway commission with broad
powers and secured men for the
commission who are not swayed by
petty or local considerations. It has
not deviated from the programme.
A completed, decent highway be
tween Portland and Seattle would be
of vast benefit to the northern state
and a lesser asset to the entire coast.
There is no stretch of road in the
orthwest about which there are
more inquiries and more complaints
than the portion of the Pacific high
way herein discussed.
pected lengths. Some threw their
marriage certificates into the fire
and declared themselves "candidates
for a higher, holier and more com
prehensive union than that which
had subsisted from the birth of time."
Others opened the bank vaults and
HAWTHORNE'S prophetic SENSE. I began casting money into the blaze.
The gift of prophecy that seems Henceforth, they- said, universal
sometimes to have been possessed by I benevolence was to be the golden
great imaginative writers has been I currency of the world. At this In-
shown again through the discovery telligence, the bankers and specu-
n a macrazine printed in 1844 of a I lators in stocks s-rew nale? and a.
little-known work by'Nathaniel Haw- pickpocket fell down in a deadly
thorne, a parable entitled Earth s I faint. There was then a "cry that
Holocaust. It is interesting for the I the period was arrived when the
light it throws on the proposition I title deeds of landed property should
that our problems, which we think be given to the flames and the whole
the most perplexing that any gener- soil of the earth revert to the public,
ation has ever known, are by no from whom it had been wrongfully
means new. hach age has its ap- I abstracted and most unequally di-
prehensions of the approaching end I vided among individuals."
of everything worth while. So it was I Yet the bonfire has not consumed
for their nourishment. They com
forted themselves, however, in the
belief that the proposed abolition of
war was impracticable, for any
length of time together." But there
are more protests, as for example:
"We shall see." replied the veteran com
mander. "If I am mistaken, so much the
better hut. In my opinion without pre
tending to philosophise about the matter
the necessity of war lies far deeper than
these honest gentlemen suppose. What! Is
there a Held tor all the petty disputes of
Individuals, and shall there be no great
law-court for the settlement of national
difficulties? The battlefield is the only
court where such suits can be tried."
lou iorget. general." responded 1. "that
In this advanced stage of civilization.
reason and philanthropy combined will
-constitute Just such a tribunal as is
requisite."
"Ah. I had forgotten that, indeed!" said
the old warrior, as he limped away.
Whether from the ' excitement of
the scene, or "whether the good peo
which are already consuming with
out protest small quantities of chlor
ine administered through filtration
plants, and it is to be prerumed that
others would put up with a good
deal to be rid of their mosquitoes.
The classic mosquito - prevention
process . in this country consists of
covering the surface of all still water
with a film of crude petroleum.
Mosquito larvae, though aquatic, are
air-breathers, and if the atmosphere
be excluded from them they perish
from asphyxiation. Oil, however.
not only renders water unfit for
drinking but its application some-
ties and must be made thoroughly to fle around ,t,h?1bonfire were f0-
be at all effective. It is possible that "s """" ""H"wsu every lasmm,
thoroughness In the treatment of the.cnf e?"lon Proceeded to unex
garded as more important that the
work shall be such as will awaken
the internal motive to advance than
that it shall be primarily the most
remunerative that may be offered.
It is found in a large proportion of
instances those who have rather defi
nite aspirations toward a certain oc
cupation are without the founda
tional preparation for it. This is
particularly true of girls, of whom
it is said:
One of the discouraging factors in the
placement of girls is the allurement of
business colleges which offer for a fixed
sum to complete a commercial education in
a short time and to secure a position as
stenographer. No matter how great the
BY-PRODUCTS OF THE TIMES I
Conditions in Germany Pictured by
Want Ada in Berlin Papers.
You can learn much of a country by
reading Its "want ads." In Berlin
under the armistice the last pages of
the daily journals gave a more exact
cross section of local conditions than
the more Intentional news columns,
writes Harry A Franck In Harpers.
There were, of course, countless
pleas for labor of any description,
the majority by ex-soldlers. Then
came offers to sell or exchange all
manner of wearing apparel, "a real
'Twas Ever Thus,
By Grace E. Hall.
manual dexterity or the conscientious ap-I silk, hat, still In good condition"; "a
nitration nf th nhlld. her lack of educa
lion, her Immaturity, her Inexperience, all
unfit her to take any worth-while position.
She Is persona non grata in any business
office and she discovers after the money
is paid and the time given that sne nas no
chance of securing the coveted Job after
all. Yet she is dissatisfied to begin all
over again at soma other occupation.
Nothing, says a noted educator, is
more likely to prevent the selection
and elevation of able character than
that a considerable section of the
population should for one reason and
another regard themselves as
counted out" of the running for
black suit of real peace time cloth";
'a second-hand pair of boots or
shoes, such a size, of real leather";
"four dress shirts, bo war wares, will
be exchanged for a working man's
blouse and Jumper," was followed by
the enticement (here, no doubt, was
th trail of the war profiteer), "a pair
of cowhide boots will be swapped for
a dachshund of established pedigree."
Farther down were extraordinary
opportunities to buy leberwurst,
blutwurst. jagdwurst. bruhwurtchen
A maiden sat on a throne of gold,
A scepter within her hand.
Life's Jester came with his jokes of
old.
But she did not understand
So she called her counselors, brave
and bold.
Even as fate had planned.
Said Folly: - "Tis well you list to me;
I know all the ways of mirth.
? U the baubles you ought to see
That brighten the paths of earth:
And all the follies that needs must be
To render your days of worth."
"I know the hidden
positions of honor and responsibil- I and a host of other appetizing gar-
n A. D. 1000, and so it has been
periodically before and since. Anx
iety as to the future, belief that
only in the past was there any cul- 1
ture. the familiar obsession that the
world is going to the dogs, that we
everything. "Come hither tomorrow
morning," says the observer's friend.
"and you will find among the ashes
everything really valuable that you
have seen me cast into the flames.
Trust me, the world of tomorrow
are sinking to a lower and a lower I will again enrich itself with the gold
level they appear always to have I and diamonds which have been cast
been recurrent. . I off by the world of today.
Hawthorne the mystic, whose no- I "Earth's Holocaust" Is a strange, if
tion of diversion in early boyhood a cynical, prophecy, one that it will
was a long, solitary walk, was a I be hard to match in the fanciful
genius of the type in whom, while literature of the past.
sympathy for his fellow men might
not be non-existent, it was apt to be
mingled with distrust and hopeless
ness. The year in which the parable
appeared in print was three years
after Hawthorne had lent his support
to the Brook Farm experiment;
which also attracted such philoso
phers of the period as Amos Bron-
son Alcott, George W. Curtis, Charles
A. Dana and Margaret Fuller. The
society represented an attempt,
though an impractical one, "effec
tually to promote the great purposes
of human culture, to establish the
THE RIGHT JOB
The report of the juvenile place
ment bureau of the state industrial
commission of New York is an ilium
inating description of effort gien to
prevent youngsters from taking any
kind of work that happens to be of
fered as soon as they have left th
public schools. The work is of. the
nature of an experiment, but an ex
periment that the value of the raw
material amply justifies. It is
founded on the theory that a poorly
external relations of life on a basis of PIac,!d workman Is likely to be a dis
wisdom and purity," and especially
Ity. The result In a democracy Is
measurably the same as the fixed po
sitions of the classes in monarchical
or stratified societies. The fluidity
of American society, of which we
were able to boast truthfully a gen.
eration or two ago, suffers in propor
tion to the degree in which this men
tal attitude prevails. We are not as
safely assured now as we were then
that any process of selection in oper
ation will promise the "detection and
'.tillzation of the abilities with which
our citizens may be endowed."
The difference between a place
ment bureau and an employment
agency is the difference between
Binding a job and a vocation. The
mportance of the vocational guid
ance movement is greater than ap
pears on the surface. It is partly
an alliance with the schools to per
suade pupils to fit themselves better
in the preliminaries of their life
work. It also serve .- as an antidote
for unrest, on the theory that
worker who can find Inspiration In a
job for which he is fitjed Is apt to
make a better citizen than one who
has left the choice to chance and has
discovered his mistake too late or not
at all.
to establish a substitute for the com
petitive system. It failed, as is well
known, and although it did not for
mally go out of existence until 1847,
the seeds of its disintegration must
have been beginning to blossom about
the time that the parable was
written.
Hawthorne, like his Miles Cover-
dale in the "Blithedale Romance
was less an active participant than
satisfied one ar-d that discontent with
the job may often exist in the case of
a potentially excellent worker. It
also takes account of the fact, well
known to thoughtful educators, that
workers who are unhappy -because
badly placed in their employments
often blame other conditions than
the true ones for their unhappiness
and live in a constant state of un
rest.
Vocational guidance, however, is
an observer rrom a distance, it ' . "7 " --
will be remembered also that what av'id the Juxtapositioa of round pegs
nection with affairs had terminated " .mj, u,Bmci.v iui
the year of the birth of Brook " " w u' 'urmsme wnal "T
Farm, when the author lost his posi
tion as weigher in the custom house
of the port of Boston as a result of
practical politics, Hawthorne being a
hereditary democrat and the whigs
having returned to power. We are
Justified in believing that he was not
influenced by the financial loss in-
iriliTar1 f n 4 i cm t ceo 1 v j"i m Vtlo nloia
in th. nirr-nmstanr-P, that th. of their strength and capacity,
i4. v i i , no matter whether fie profession for
which they are preparing be divinity.
Eliot or Harvard some years ago
aptly called "the internal motive of
interest in the work.' It is not by
accident, for example, that, as Dr,
Eliot says, "in general rrofessional
students exhibit keen interest in
their studies, work hard, advance
rapidly and avail themselves of their
knowledge and skill to the utmost
More of the humbug in the pre
war claims of the Germans to super-
efficiency in medicine and surgery
seems to have been exposed in the
Paris Weekly Review, a writer in
which summarizes the work of med
ical staffs attached to the armies of
various nations during the war. Mor
tality from chest wounds was from
10 to 12 per cent in French surgical
operations; German statistics report
as high as 32 per cent of deaths
Wounds of the knee were 6 per cent
fatal in the French army, and as
high as 20 per cent in German hos
pitals. The writer, a French surgeon
of note, finds that the enemy doc
bags, without meat tickets
But the most persistent advertisers
were those bent on recouping their
fortunes by marrying money. It is
strange If any new war millionaire
in Germany has not had his oppor
tunity to link his family with that
of some impoverished one of noble
lineage. In a single page of the
Berliner Tageblatt, which carries
about one-tenth of type of the same
space in our own metropolitan dailies,
there were 87 offers of. marriage,
some of them double or more, bring
ing the total up to at least a hundred.
Many of them were efforts, more
pathetic than amusing, of small mer
chants or tradesmen Just returned
from five years in uniform to find
mates who would be of real assist
ance in re-establishing their business.
But a considerable number aroused
amazement that the wares offered
had not been snapped up long before
I translate a few taken at random:
Merchant, 38 years old. Christian, bach
elor, idealist, lover Of nntnr a rr Bnntm
fortune of 3O0.0O0 marks, wishes to meet
a like minded, agreeable young ladv with
corresponding wealth which is safely in-
purpose marri&ire
Factory owner. Ph. D., Evangelical. 31,
meter 75. fine bthip',..,.... ..oac-i-
officer, sound, lover of sports, humorous
and musical, 400.000 marks property,
seeks a life companion of like gifts and
viumnjr in saie investments.
row and then a man and the women
always were offered by third parties,
at least ostensibly, half the Insertions
beginning "For my sister"; "For my
daughter";-"For my beautiful niece
Said Wisdom:
thouirht
That lives in each fragrant flower; "
I grasp the wonders of things God
wrought. Here in his earthly bower;
And I can show you the marvels -brought
To form his magic power."
"I wait for another." the maiden cried.
Impatient at his delay. .
heed not Foily, whate'er betide,
Nor Wisdom's too solemn lay;
Comes one with experience deep and
wide
I'll hear what he has to say."
But .the maiden trembled when Love
orew near,
Chief of her counselors bold.
Follow." he said, and without fear
She stenrjeri from htf v. - ,
And the jester laughed with a gurgle
M ueor -
Thinking of queens of old!
HIDDEN TREASURES.
There are Jewels in the ocean
That would rival gems of mart:
There are tender words unspoken.
Burning ever in the heart.
There Is gold within the mountain.
That awaits the miner's glean;
There are tints within the fountain.
That the eye has never seen.
Birds are mating in the wildwood
Of the very brightest hue:
There is genius in young childhood
That the old world never knew.
There are forces yet unshackeled
That await the subtle brain:
Projects, man has never tackled
Seeming futile and In vain.
There are histories unwritten
That would chill the hottest blood.
While many hearts with pain were
smitten.
That did still the anguish flood.
There are elements yet hidden.
Having functions to perform.
And to light may come unbidden.
iiKe the sunshine after storm.
There's a work of art and beauty
for the unborn hand to mould.
0 . " i . . l -1 - uuuurn nana to mould, i
of 22 : and so on. Some looked like Not by cold, stern voice of duty
For 1 ut as budding leaves unfold.
There's a path that leads to glory
Tho no footprints, show the way;
I And each day tells a new story.
me progress yesterday.
tors were ruthless in experiment, looked Into that splendid opportunity
clever in adaptation, but lacking in
the art of healing in an emergenpy.
And the war doubtless was an emer
gency, in which it appears that the
physicians of the allies, notably those
of America, succeeded beyond their
own expectations, while those of the
central powers failed to make good
the expectations of the world.
the opportunity of a lifetime.
Instance:
For a baroness of 23. orphan, $750,000
property, later heiress of big real
tate. . .
If the demands of my calling had
not kept me so busy I shoura have I Every year new spheres are numbered
To the orbs that glow above:
And each night the brain that slum
bered
May some new Invention prove.
first money he had ever saved was
sunk in the Brook Farm venture.
but it will be supposed that failure
in each instance was not without ef
fect in the shaping of his philosophy.
Events at any rate Indicate a coinci
dence between the disillusionment of
contact with human nature and the
cynicism of the parable.
Seventy-six years ago the same
problems vexed us are are pressing
law, medicine, architecture, end
neerlng, forestry, teaching, business
or corporation service." It is found
that In secondary education the high
schools of commerce have a decided
advantage as regards the motive
power within the pupil over ordinary
high schools. The industrial schools,
the night schools and the business
The gain in outstanding life insur
ance written by the "old line" com
panies in 1919, which is estimated
at $5,695,000,000, indicates that some
of the people are inclined to make
provision for the future while times
are good, and it is an encouraging
offset to stories of lack of thrift and
of extravagance which seem to pre
dominate in the current literature of
the day. Another remarkable phase
of the showing Is that it was made in
the face of the government's cam- lady's kiss.
for solution today. Hawthorne tells clle5S 1hOW a. TSe ?,r0p0j;"on f
how "this wide world had become so
overburdened with an accumulation
of wornout trumpery that the inhabi
tants determined to rid themselves
of It by a general bonfire." . The site
chosen was a broad prairie of the
west, "where no human habitation
might be endangered by the flames,
but where a vast assemblage of spec-
strongly interested pupils. The dif
ference undoubtedly is due to the
fact that the pupil has a definite
purpose in life, that he has chosen
what he believes to be a vocation
that will be agreeable to him, and
that promises reward for his effort.
As Dr. Eliot says:
The Journeyman who has chosen one of
the fundamental trades enlists in a public
La. Lot a iilis1- uwuAiinjLtiwuoij aumua ior an enaowea evening school or i
the show. First " I Y. M. C. A. class with the purpose of ira
.. ... . . , . I proving nunseiE in ma iraoe or art. and
Here were consumed all the rubbish of believes that srood work in th ihul
tne neraio s onice; me oiaxonry 01 coai wiu increase his earning capacity. The
of armor, the crests and devices of illus- negro or Indian student at Hampton sees
Jiis rejection of one-man. govern-1 they come dangerously near hitting
GETTING KID OF MOSQCTTOES
Until the report from Paris that
the Pasteur Institute has "conferred
a new benefit on mankind" by de
vising a better way of destroying
mosquitoes is published in detail
scientists will be inclined to accept
with reserve the suggestion that a
scheme to poison water to a degree
that will prevent the development of
Insect larvae may not also be dan
gerous to the health of men. The
announcement nevertheless Is inter
esting because of the memories it
recalls of the successful fight that
has, been waged on plagues since it
was discovered that vermin of vari
ous kinds are their chief distributors.
Major-General Gorgas, who died
recently, was an important contrib
utor to the science of disease control
through sanitation. It was under
his direction that the work was done
that gave us the first glimpse of a
tropical country habitable by north
ern whites. The causes of French
failure to finish the Panama canal
probably were more largely hygienic
than financial, and when Americans
learned to control the mosquito the
canal was built. Yet it will not be
forgotten that Louis Pasteur pre
pared the way for the whole science
of hygiene, or that the institute that
bears his name has a distinguished
place in the scientific world. Oppo
nents of the eighteenth amendment
are entitled to such comfort as they
are able to extract from the circum
stance that we probably owe the dis
covery of germ causation of certain
diseases now well under control to
M. Pasteur's original researches into
the yeasts that cause fermentation
of beer.
The Paris announcement, from the
data at hand, appears to be the re
sult of an effort to find a way to
combat the mosquito in itsbreeding
place without making the water that
it infests unfit for drirking purposes.
It is probably more important to
communities whose sources of sup-
ply are limited than to those like our
own which draw from fast-running
mountain streams and shun pools and
cisterns. It is said to be held that
powdered formalin sprinkled on the
water in certain quantities will de
stroy mosquito larvae without detri-
trious families; pedigrees that extended
back, like lines of light, into the midst
of the dark ages. . . And, besides,
there were the patents of nobility of Ger
man barons'. Spanish grandees and English
peers, from the worm-eaten Instrument
signed by William the Conqueror down to
the brand-new parchment of the latest
lord who has received his honors from
the fair hand of Victoria.
clearly that the studies of the place will
make him a better farmer, or a carpenter,
mason or'wheelwright, with good earning
capacity; and he has decided to fit himself
as well as h possibly can lor one of these
gainful occupations. The apprenticeship
method in education, though alow and
liable to great abuses, produced for many
centuries highly skilled craftsmen, who
There were protests. Of course, but ceding generations and transmitted it -with
they were received with jeers. One I additions to the next. When, under the
: i wn "eHrrlnu- nn tha I factory system, apprenticeflhip almost dls-
. . . . 0 1 a riT,,.a t--H If turnri nut that a a,i.ef..l
bonfire with the czar of Russia s m-thod ot education on a large scale had
srptitre. which he afterward flung i been well-nigh lost. Its success was due
intr. tho flames." A vast nrocesslon the continuous play ot tho motive of
myself. But, after all, come to think
of it, what Is a mere million marks
nowadays?
a
Surely it Is never too late for a
Ham Lewis story. This happened
when balloting in the democratic
convention had reached the tenth
poll of the state and W. G. McAdoo
still held a goodly lead over Cox
and Palmer. Miss Frances Joliffe
met the one and only J. Hamilton
Lewis In the lunch room and over a
sandwich and a glass of milk she
asked him:
"Senator, do you think McAdoo will
refuse if he is nominated?'
"My dear Miss Joliffe," answered
the former senator from Illinois,
"there are two things no gentleman
ever refuses the presidency and
The Clubman in Oak-
Those who aim to high endeavor.
Will achieve their soul's desire.
For the mind is king, forever
To the WILL that would aspire.
M1LTO.N C. ARMSTRONG.
paign to persuade service men to re
tain the insurance they took out
while the war was in progress. Gov
ernment insurance, instead of acting
as a compteitor of the standard com
panies, stimulated the whole indus
try and made life insurance more
popular than it has ever been. The
land Enquirer.
mm
One of the first musical instru
ments made by an American was
mouth harmonica, made by Benjamin
Franklin at the time when he was
minister at the court of Louis in
France, where he played it with con-
THE MAPLE TREE.
The night my mother passed beyond,
ana leit
Me here aione, a boat at sea, bereft,
m dark distress to wind and wave the
port.
By tempest tossed and with no seem-
,ing port.
I stumbled out to this old maple tree.
It stood with arms out-stretched to
welcome me.
And sitting here on this worn bench
beneath
I looked up to the stars with bated
breath.
It seemed as though my mother came
and sat
Beside me on the bench. I noticed
that
She had a gracious power of strength
and rest '
That never comes to mortals at their
best.
And all my doubts and questionings
were done.
total of new policies written during I siderable skill before Marie Antoin- I perhaps they would return at dawn
the year was more than $8,700,000
0CO, of which about two-thirds was
c!er gain, and the aggregate insur
ance in force at the close of the year
is estimated at $33,500,000,000. .
Superintendent Keyser of the park
bureau, resenting criticism of poorly
built Terwilliger boulevard, says he
can go over it at 25 miles per hour
by automobile, even on a wet day.
We hope he makes all funeral ar
rangements before he starts.
Mr. Christensen says that if elected
he "will move the capital of the
United States from Wall street to
Washington, where the constitution
placed it." What section of what ar
ticle of . the constitution placed the
capital at Washington?
of the Washingtonians as the vota
ries of temperance then called them
selves accompanied by thousands
of the Irish disciples of Father
Mathew, brought a rich contribution
to the bonfire, being nothing else
than all the hogsheads and barrels
of liquor in the world. "And now,
my children," cried Father Mathew,
"one shove more, and the work is
done! And now let us stand off and
see Satan deal with -his own liquor.
the life-career.
The contrast here is as sharply de
fined as pjsible between the inter
est shown by future workmen in
their studies and experiences related
by the juvenile placement bureau.
Parents do- not always assume the
responsibility that belongs to them
and youths of both sexes are only
dimly aware of their fitness for any
kind of work. Too much is left to
chance. The president of the Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology
But the Joy was not universal . Many found that of a thousand young men
earnestly seeking light and believing
themselves to have aptitude for sci
ence, "'not one appreciates what an
enormous number of openings there
are to a man who really masters a
The Esperantlsts claim that their
language has been made compulsory
in the schools of Russia, Hungary,
Jugo-Slavia and Czecho-Slovakia.
There are several nations left, how
ever, for the press agent of Ido to
claim, and he has the last say.
ette and her court ladies.
The queen was so delighted and
Interested that Franklin presented
the little instrument to her. After
Marie Antoinette was beheaded in the
great French revolution this mouth
harmonica had many sensational ex
periences till finally it came into
the possession of a wealthy musical
mateur and collector in this country.
who has it, I believe, to this day.-
Musical America.
Cleveland man tells of a motoring
experience that was rather unusual
at the time, but which had a very
pleasing aftemath.
During the old days of the right-
hand drive cars he was driving in an
other city where traffic signals were
similar to those now in vogue in
Cleveland. He was in the act of
making a turn at a street intersec
tion and held out his right hand ae
a signal.
"Imagine my surprise," he says.
when I felt my hand seized and
shaken by an attractive young woman
Ever see the machine that mixes
a pound of butter with a quart of
milk and makes two pounds of but
ter? It gives hope to the man who
would put a quart of something
with a pound of sawdust and make
a breakfast food.
than ever, when that brier Illumination
should sink down. While the reformers
were at work. I overheard muttered ex
postulations from several respectable gen-
uemen. .
What Is this woria good ior. saia tne
i . . ...... "mnur th.i wa ran nv. h 1nl v
any more'? What is to comfort the poor I small field of science and is alert
man in sorrow ana perj,,ej..iLiy i now i enougrti to be conscious of its practl-
v. .. , VAAn Vi ' heart warm against tne I
cold winds of this cheerless earth? and I cal applications. Pew have even a
what do you propose to give him in ex- I conception of the enormous variety
How Ire Told' friends to' .U together by of callings to which a scientific train
th fires de. without a cneenui fciass oe nntr mav ieaa. tdb rrooiem encoun
Son"" nTsTaAea'daw,oer.d!02 cold worlT. ed"C0" dUnS nly Wlth
selfish world, now that good fellowship's I what may fairly be regarded as se-
gone forever- iect material Is intensified many fold
Then follow the tobacco plant- I where the youth has had the benefit
ers, casting tneir crops upon tne i neither or family tradition nor of
heap of inutility" and aggregating it I early though vague desire for gen
to the size of a mountain, whereat eral advancement. The placement
there is more wailing. Now that I bureau finds that the ideas of those
they have kindled the bonfire," cries I whom it is called 'on to advise are
an old gentleman, if these nonsenst- I highly nebulous. To the question.
cal reformers would fling themselves "What kind of work do you want?
into It, all would be well enough! I the commonest answer is, "Anything
"Be patient," responds a staunch 1 1 can get." It is on this principle
conservative, it will come to that in I that a large proportion of unguided
the end. They will first fling us in I youths obtain their first employment
and then themselves." Munitions I and where they drift into callings
are added to the flames. The hope- I for which they are unfitted, either by
ful philanthrophist esteems this as a I temperament or ability, time is lost
token that the millennium is already I in experiment and in aimless effort
come, "while persons of another I to find the right niche which cannot
stamp, in whose view mankind was I be atoned for in later life.
a race of bulldogs, prophesied that I Emphasis is placed, as It ought to
all the stoutness, fervor, nobleness, 1 be, on choosing a Job that shall be
generosity and magnanimity of the 1 "above all the beginning, the open
race would disappear, these quali- ing. of a path that shall lead to prac
They are beginning to criticise the
literary style of the presidential can
didates. We expect to hear a good
deal about "newspaper English" be
fore the campaign ends.
The experience of that Missouri
couple with Jamestown weed coffee
will discourage search among the
flowers of the field for a beverage
with a "kick."
.'a Philadelphia man has been ar
rested for blockading traffic. It
seems that he pulled out a flask and
cried: "Everybody haVe one with
m.e."
The new motto of the country is
"Millions for filling stations and mo
tion-picture theaters, but not a cent
for dwelling houses."
The prohibitionists at least gave
Mr. Bryan the chance to say truth
fully that he once declined a noml
nation for president. .
ment and his promise to restore rep- W. G. McAdoo, who wcj head of a ' ment to fish and without detracting ' ties, they affirmed, requiring blood tical accomplishment." It Is . re
One by one the Bergdoll accom
plices are dropping in, and Grover'
turn will come in the course of time.
Anyhow, the soviet governmen
hasn't yet tried to adopt the old
French device of the ten-day week.
The butterfat buyers are getting
the cream of the business.
of sun,
But for the time were lost in love
divine
A moment rare such moments are
sublime.
And so I love this dear old maple tree;
Twas here in life my mother loved
to be;
'Twas here In love my mother came to
me.
EMEROI STACY.
THE SEA OF SLEEP.
There is a sea, a quiet sea.
Which borders on this earthly main.
And oh, tis fair, so fair to me.
For those who sail come back again.
And often when my heart grows sore.
My feet a-weary on the way.
I softly breathe my pilot's name.
And in our boat we sail away.
I leave beside the shore my load.
Each bitter sigh and cruel pain;
My pilot tells me, "All Is well,"
And then my heart grows still
again.
And thus we call, and sail away,
Beneath the stars through ail the
night.
who evidently mistook my signal for I And when we reach the shore again.
a salutation. The woman was a per
fect stranger to me-t-then but we
both Joined In hearty laughter. The
strangest part of it Is. she is my
wife now." Columbus (O.) Luspatch.
Mr. HIgglnson had been away from
home for a week and on his return 1 oh, blessed, blessed sea of sleep!
The sky Is fair with morning light.
Somehow my cares have taken wings.
With happy heart I lift a song;
I tread the stony path with joy.
My faith exults, my hopes grow
strong.
found that burglars had visited the
house during his absence and.
although one had been wounded, they
had succeeded In getting away.
And so you shot a burglar while
alone and unprotected r" he said to
hi wifei "You are a brave little
woman! What became of him?"
The other man carried him off."
she replied.
"The other man?" he asked.
"Yes." she said, "the one I aimed
at." Pittsburg Sun.
The only way you can get a doll
In Turkey is to make It yourself. The
And blessed pilot, in whose hand
nightly leave each anxious care.
And sail with him to morning land.
ELIZABETH E. SHERWOOD.
Salem, Or.
TRACKS LEADING OCT.
They quarreled one day as lovers do;
She gave him back his ring;
He threw it in the green mesquite.
A hated, worthless thing.
They spoke hot words not many
words.
They parted proud and pale;
She watched him from a hidden place
Go slowiy up the trail.
Now mourns she like a prisoned dove
Whose mate shall ne er return;
'Big Sisters club" of Armenian girls h, bitter is the gall of love.
in Harpoot decided that the little girls
In the Cripples' home of that city
must have dolls. To be sure, these
"Big Sisters" aren't much past the
doll age themselves perhaps that'e
why they realized the importance of
And long must lovers mourn.
"Tis sad whc.i lowly mounds are made
To shut away the dead;
"Tis grief to watch the light of Mfe
Fail round a swimming he&d;
I But sadder still to follow far
Some winding desert track.
this need. They talked the matter And know the footprints In the dust
over with Miss Helen Jones, a Y. W.
C. A. secretary, who Is the leader of
their club, and decided that since
there was no better way to get the
dolls, they d have to maite tnem.
Made of cloth and stuffed with any
thing soft that presents itself, these
dolls may not be much like the
haughty beauties of our American I
T.fari out. nor will come back.
GUY FITCH PHEJ.FS.
PERSPECTIVE.
The short man gazed at the picture
and said, "It is hung too high";
Then a tall lady came with opposite
claim. "Too low," she said with
a sigh.
toy shops, but the devotion of their I And a person of medium etature. as
little crippled mothers is neverthe- he viewed was heard to say.
the I "'Tis nuns too mucti on
.Drl Thev will have
'l',tiT- io:i too, of being the only I displeased he turned away
ones of their kind in Turkey.
level," and
JANETTE MARTIN.